Fairburn has two research interests: the nature and treatment of eating disorders, and the development and evaluation of psychological interventions. The result has been the development of specific psychological treatments for the eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and allied states). He and his colleagues developed the leading evidence-based treatment for bulimia nervosa (a form of cognitive behavioral therapy)[4][5] and, more recently, an "enhanced" version (CBT-E) for any type of eating disorder and for all age groups.[6]NHS England[7] and the Chief Medical Officer[8] have recommended that CBT-E be made available for all patients with an eating disorder, whatever their specific diagnosis and whatever their age.

Fairburn has also developed new methods for disseminating psychological treatments. These include an online and scalable way of training large numbers of clinicians simultaneously (web-centred training)[9] and a self-help version of the cognitive behavioural treatment for bulimia nervosa.[10] He is currently developing an online form of CBT-E ("CBTe").

Books Dr Fairburn has written include the highly regarded "Overcoming Binge Eating" - now in its second edition (2013). This includes, at Part Two, a multi-stepped self-help program for individuals who suffer from an eating disorder (e.g. bulimia nervosa; binge eating disorder) to work through systematically, over a period of months, either on their own or aided by a therapist if they prefer, in order to resolve their eating disorder successfully.

^NICE, 2004. Eating Disorders: Core interventions in the treatment and management of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders. Royal College of Psychiatrists and British Psychological Society, London.

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University of Oxford
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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris, after disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two ancient universities are frequently referred to as Oxbridge. The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges, All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. Being a city university, it not have a main campus, instead, its buildings. Oxford is the home of the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the worlds oldest and most prestigious scholarships, the university operates the worlds oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in Britain. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 28 Nobel laureates,27 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, the University of Oxford has no known foundation date. Teaching at Oxford existed in form as early as 1096. It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris, the historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190. The head of the university had the title of chancellor from at least 1201, the university was granted a royal charter in 1248 during the reign of King Henry III. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled from the violence to Cambridge, the students associated together on the basis of geographical origins, into two nations, representing the North and the South. In later centuries, geographical origins continued to many students affiliations when membership of a college or hall became customary in Oxford. At about the time, private benefactors established colleges as self-contained scholarly communities. Among the earliest such founders were William of Durham, who in 1249 endowed University College, thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. In 1333–34, an attempt by some dissatisfied Oxford scholars to found a new university at Stamford, Lincolnshire was blocked by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge petitioning King Edward III. Thereafter, until the 1820s, no new universities were allowed to be founded in England, even in London, thus, Oxford and Cambridge had a duopoly, the new learning of the Renaissance greatly influenced Oxford from the late 15th century onwards. Among university scholars of the period were William Grocyn, who contributed to the revival of Greek language studies, and John Colet, the noted biblical scholar. With the English Reformation and the breaking of communion with the Roman Catholic Church, recusant scholars from Oxford fled to continental Europe, as a centre of learning and scholarship, Oxfords reputation declined in the Age of Enlightenment, enrolments fell and teaching was neglected

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Malvern College
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Malvern College is an independent coeducational day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a school in the British sense of the term and is a member of the Rugby Group and of the Headmasters. Since its foundation in 1865, it has remained on the same grounds, the campus, now covering some 250 acres, is set against the backdrop of the Malvern Hills. There are currently about 660 pupils enrolled at the school, aged between 13 and 19, additionally, there are about 310 pupils aged from 3 to 13 at The Downs, Malvern College prep school, in nearby Colwall in Herefordshire. Across the two schools, in total, there are nearly 1000 pupils, among the alumni of the College are at least two Commonwealth Prime Ministers, two Nobel Laureates, an Olympic Gold medalist and many other notable persons from various fields. The novelist C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, is a pupil of the school. The school opened its doors for the first time on 25 January 1865 under the headship of the Rev. Arthur Faber. Initially, there were only twenty-four boys, of eleven were day boys, six masters. One year later, there were sixty-four boys, by 1875, there were 200 on the Roll and five boarding houses, by the end of the 19th century, the numbers had risen to more than 400 boys and ten houses. American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868, Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Lord Randolph Churchills speech-day comments on education in 1889 were reported in The Times. The school was one of the twenty four Public Schools listed in the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1928. Further expansion of numbers and buildings continued between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the start of the Second World War in 1939. During the two Wars,457 and 258 former pupils, respectively, gave their lives, seven former pupils were among the few who took part in the Battle of Britain. During World War II, the College premises were requisitioned by the Admiralty between October 1939 and July 1940, and the school relocated to Blenheim Palace. In 1942, its premises were again needed for use, on this occasion by the TRE and, from May 1942 to July 1946. QinetiQ, a private sector successor to the original research facility, is still sited on former college land. The college also departed from the boarding tradition of the English public school and allows day pupils. In September 2008, the Colleges Prep School merged with The Downs prep school on the nearby site in Colwall, Herefordshire to form The Downs

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University of Edinburgh
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The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotlands ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh was ranked 17th and 21st in the world by the 2014–15 and 2015-16 QS rankings. It is now ranked 19th in the according to 2016-17 QS Rankings. It is ranked 16th in the world in arts and humanities by the 2015–16 Times Higher Education Ranking and it is ranked the 23rd most employable university in the world by the 2015 Global Employability University Ranking. It is ranked as the 6th best university in Europe by the U. S. News Best Global Universities Ranking and it is a member of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Research Universities, a consortium of 21 research universities in Europe. It has the third largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, after the universities of Cambridge and it continues to have links to the British Royal Family, having had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne since 2011. Edinburgh receives approximately 50,000 applications every year, making it the fourth most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants, after St Andrews, it is the most difficult university to gain admission into in Scotland, and 9th overall in the UK. This was a move at the time, as most universities were established through Papal bulls. Established as the Tounis College, it opened its doors to students in October 1583, instruction began under the charge of another St Andrews graduate Robert Rollock. It was the fourth Scottish university in a period when the more populous. It was renamed King Jamess College in 1617, by the 18th century, the university was a leading centre of the Scottish Enlightenment. The universitys first custom-built building was the Old College, now Edinburgh Law School and its first forte in teaching was anatomy and the developing science of surgery, from which it expanded into many other subjects. From the basement of a nearby house ran the anatomy tunnel corridor and it went under what was then North College Street, and under the university buildings until it reached the universitys anatomy lecture theatre, delivering bodies for dissection. It was from this tunnel the body of William Burke was taken after he had been hanged, towards the end of the 19th century, Old College was becoming overcrowded and Robert Rowand Anderson was commissioned to design new Medical School premises in 1875. The medical school was more or less built to his design and was completed by the addition of the McEwan Hall in the 1880s. The building now known as New College was originally built as a Free Church college in the 1840s and has been the home of divinity at the university since the 1920s. The two oldest schools – law and divinity – are both well-esteemed, with law being based in Old College and divinity in New College on the Mound and they are also represented by the Edinburgh University Sports Union which was founded in 1866. The medical school is renowned throughout the world and it was widely considered the best medical school in the English-speaking world throughout the 18th century and first half of the 19th century

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Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
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The Medical Research Council is a publicly funded government agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, Research funded by the MRC has produced 30 Nobel Prize winners to date. This was a consequence of the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, the mandate was not limited to tuberculosis, however. In 1920, it became the Medical Research Council under Royal Charter, a supplementary Charter was formally approved by the Queen on 17 July 2003. In August 2012, the creation of the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre, and additional items from the Centres technology partners Bruker and Waters Corporation. Important work carried out under MRC auspices has included, the identification of the cause of rickets by Sir Edward Mellanby. Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Professor Maurice Wilkins, in the past, the MRC has been answerable to the Office of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry. The MRC is governed by a council of 14 members, which every two months. Its Council, which directs and oversees corporate policy and science strategy, ensures that the MRC is effectively managed, Council members are drawn from industry, academia, government and the NHS. Members are appointed by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, daily management is in the hands of the Chief Executive. Members of the council also chair specialist boards on specific areas of research, for specific subjects, the council convenes committees. Wood 1924–1929, The Rt Hon. the Earl of Balfour 1929–1934, The Rt Hon. Viscount DAbernon 1934–1936, the Marquess of Linlithgow 1936–1948, Lord Balfour of Burleigh 1948–1951, The Rt Hon. Viscount Addison 1952–1960, The Earl of Limerick 1960–1961, The Rt Hon. The Viscount Amory 1961–1965, The Rt Hon. Lord Shawcross 1965–1969, the Viscount Amory 1969–1978, His Grace the Duke of Northumberland 1978–1982, The Rt Hon. The Lord Shepherd 1982–1990, The Rt Hon and it also has 26 centres offering partnerships with UK universities to develop centres of scientific excellence. Historical perspectives on the role of the MRC, essays in the history of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and its predecessor, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of Scientific Medicine in Britain Minerva 16#1, 20–41. Quantifying the economic impact of government and charity funding of research on private research. BMC Medicine 14#1, 1+ Viergever, Roderik F. and Thom CC Hendriks, the 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world, what they fund and how they distribute their funds. Health Research Policy and Systems 14#1,1, MRC official website Research Councils UK Human Genetic Unit Annual Reviews Social & Public Health Sciences Unit NIMR official website MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre website MRC YouTube channel

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Wellcome Trust
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The Wellcome Trust is a biomedical research charity based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome to fund research to improve human and it has an endowment of around £20.9 billion. The Trust has been described by the Financial Times as the United Kingdoms largest provider of funding for scientific research. In the field of research, it is the worlds second-largest private funder after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Trust was established to administer the fortune of the American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome and its income was derived from what was originally called Burroughs Wellcome, later renamed in the UK as the Wellcome Foundation Ltd. In 1986, the trust sold 25% of Wellcome plc stock to the public, in 1995, the trust divested itself of any interest in pharmaceuticals by selling all remaining stock to Glaxo plc, the companys historic British rival, creating GlaxoWellcome plc. In 2000, the Wellcome name disappeared from the business altogether when GlaxoWellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham. The Trust funds or co-funds a number of biomedical research initiatives, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Diamond Light Source, the UKs national synchrotron science facility in Oxfordshire. The Ebola Emergency Initiative, a research programme with the goal of identifying clinical. The Structural Genomics Consortium, an international organisation focussing on three-dimensional structures of proteins of relevance with an emphasis on open data. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a non-profit, British genomics and genetics research institute, UK Biobank and the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council. The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, established in 1989 in partnership with the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, established in 1995. The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa, the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme in Thailand and Laos, established in 1979. The Vietnam Research Programme and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, also known as SDDI, this five year initiative started in October 2005 with the remit to facilitate the development of drug-like small molecules that address unmet medical needs. SDDI was based in London and managed by Richard Davis, through early 2010, SDDI had provided more than £80 million across 30 projects split between academic institutions and companies. To early 2010, all but one of the recipients were either start-ups or spin-outs. In May 2010, an additional £110 million was added to the SDDI fund with the intent to extend the initiative for an additional 5 years, the Wellcome Trust plays an important role in encouraging publication of research in open access repositories such as Europe PubMed Central

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National Health Service
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The National Health Service is the name of the public health services of England, Scotland and Wales, and is commonly used to refer to those of Northern Ireland. They were established together as one of the social reforms following the Second World War on the founding principles of being comprehensive, universal. Today, each provides a range of health services, the vast majority of which are free for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom. Taken together, the four National Health Services in 2015-16 employed around 1.6 million people with a budget of £136.7 billion. For non-residents, the NHS is free at the time of use, for general practitioner, the NHS began on the Appointed Day of 5 July 1948. This put into practice Westminster legislation for England and Wales from 1946 and Scotland from 1947, when Clement Attlees Labour Party won the 1945 election he appointed Aneurin Bevan as Health Minister. Bevan then embarked upon what the historian of the NHS, Charles Webster. Three years after the founding of the NHS, Bevan resigned from the Labour government in opposition to the introduction of charges for the provision of dentures and glasses, the following year, Winston Churchills Conservative government introduced prescription charges. These charges were the first of many controversies over reforms to the NHS throughout its history, each of the UKs four nations have their own separate NHS, each with its own history. From its earliest days, the history of the NHS has shown its place in British society reflected and debated in film, TV, cartoons. However, some functions might be performed by one health service on behalf of another. There have been issues about cross-border payments, taken together, the four National Health Services in 2015-16 employed around 1.6 million people with a combined budget of £136.7 billion. In 2014 the total health sector workforce across the UK was 2,165,043 and this broke down into 1,789,586 in England,198,368 in Scotland,110,292 in Wales and 66,797 in Northern Ireland. The NHS is free at the time of use, for general practitioner and emergency treatment not including admission to hospital, people with the right to medical care in European Economic Area nations are also entitled to free treatment by using the European Health Insurance Card. Those from other countries with which the UK has reciprocal arrangements also qualify for free treatment, people not ordinarily resident in the UK are in general not entitled to free hospital treatment, with some exceptions such as refugees. People not ordinarily resident may be subject to an interview to establish their eligibility, patients who do not qualify for free treatment are asked to pay in advance, or to sign a written undertaking to pay, except for emergency treatment. The provision of treatment to non-UK-residents, formerly interpreted liberally, has been increasingly restricted. As of 2016 the surcharge was £200 per year, with exemptions and reductions in some cases, the systems are 98. 8% funded from general taxation and National Insurance contributions, plus small amounts from patient charges for some services

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Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The college provides advice to those responsible for training and certifying psychiatrists in the UK. In addition to publishing books and producing several journals, the College produces, for the public. Its offices are located at 21 Prescot Street in London, near Aldgate, the College was formerly located in Belgrave Square. The College has existed in various forms since 1841, having started life as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums, in 1865 it became the Medico-Psychological Association. In 1926, the Association received its Royal Charter, becoming the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, finally, in 1971, a Supplemental Charter accorded the Association the status of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Several grades of membership are available, Members use the post-nominal letters MRCPsych, affiliateship offers psychiatrists in the UK, who are not in training grades or substantive consultant posts, the opportunity of involvement with the College. Specialist Associateship of the College is open to registered medical practitioners working in the United Kingdom, Fellowship use the post-nominal letters FRCPsych. Fellowship is awarded to a Member who has made a significant and it is not normally awarded until the nominee has held the Membership for a minimum of ten years. The process by which Members be awarded Fellowship of the College is that they should be nominated, proposed and seconded by two Members of the College, the coat of arms incorporates the traditional serpent-entwined rod of Asclepius symbolic of medicine, and butterflies associated with Psyche. Previous to the grant of arms, the Medico-Psychological Association had used a device showing the seated Psyche with butterflys wings. The arms were granted to the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in 1926. They were also registered in Scotland by the Court of the Lord Lyon, the work of the College Centre for Quality Improvement has developed a role for clinicians and their professional bodies in raising standards. Its national initiatives engage directly with clinicians, managers and service users, more than 90% of mental health services in the UK participate in the work of the CCQI. The Policy Unit, part of the Communications and Policy Department, is responsible for the development and delivery of College policy to the membership, the Colleges Public Affairs and Parliamentary work is also undertaken by the Unit. The president is elected for a term and serves as head of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The current president is Sir Simon Wessely

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PubMed Identifier
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PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval, from 1971 to 1997, MEDLINE online access to the MEDLARS Online computerized database primarily had been through institutional facilities, such as university libraries. PubMed, first released in January 1996, ushered in the era of private, free, home-, the PubMed system was offered free to the public in June 1997, when MEDLINE searches via the Web were demonstrated, in a ceremony, by Vice President Al Gore. Information about the journals indexed in MEDLINE, and available through PubMed, is found in the NLM Catalog. As of 5 January 2017, PubMed has more than 26.8 million records going back to 1966, selectively to the year 1865, and very selectively to 1809, about 500,000 new records are added each year. As of the date,13.1 million of PubMeds records are listed with their abstracts. In 2016, NLM changed the system so that publishers will be able to directly correct typos. Simple searches on PubMed can be carried out by entering key aspects of a subject into PubMeds search window, when a journal article is indexed, numerous article parameters are extracted and stored as structured information. Such parameters are, Article Type, Secondary identifiers, Language, publication type parameter enables many special features. As these clinical girish can generate small sets of robust studies with considerable precision, since July 2005, the MEDLINE article indexing process extracts important identifiers from the article abstract and puts those in a field called Secondary Identifier. The secondary identifier field is to store numbers to various databases of molecular sequence data, gene expression or chemical compounds. For clinical trials, PubMed extracts trial IDs for the two largest trial registries, ClinicalTrials. gov and the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register, a reference which is judged particularly relevant can be marked and related articles can be identified. If relevant, several studies can be selected and related articles to all of them can be generated using the Find related data option, the related articles are then listed in order of relatedness. To create these lists of related articles, PubMed compares words from the title and abstract of each citation, as well as the MeSH headings assigned, using a powerful word-weighted algorithm. The related articles function has been judged to be so precise that some researchers suggest it can be used instead of a full search, a strong feature of PubMed is its ability to automatically link to MeSH terms and subheadings. Examples would be, bad breath links to halitosis, heart attack to myocardial infarction, where appropriate, these MeSH terms are automatically expanded, that is, include more specific terms. Terms like nursing are automatically linked to Nursing or Nursing and this important feature makes PubMed searches automatically more sensitive and avoids false-negative hits by compensating for the diversity of medical terminology. The My NCBI area can be accessed from any computer with web-access, an earlier version of My NCBI was called PubMed Cubby